New idea artwork and particulars for long-known canceled Half-Life video games have been revealed, as there have been many spin-offs within the Valve FPS recreation sequence that haven’t seen a correct launch during the last twenty years. These canceled Half-Life video games by no means noticed the sunshine of day for vastly totally different causes, however getting even just a bit bit of recent details about them is completely unimaginable.
That’s proper, a number of main particulars a few myriad of canceled Half-Life video games have been revealed in a model new DidYouKnowGaming video. The channel shares new info, interviews, and idea artwork for identified canceled Half-Life video games, and we’ll break down a few of the larger stuff beneath.
One venture DYKG takes intention at is the Half-Life 2 Episode 4 Ravenholm spin-off venture at Arkane, alongside consolidating what we knew about Episode 3, just like the written therapy of the potential story from Valve author Marc Laidlaw.
It’s additionally price noting that across the 12-minute mark in DYKG’s video, there are some model new scans for Half-Life 2 Episode 3. The group says it is going to be sending out a hyperlink subsequent week that will likely be made out there to everybody which could have all of the high-resolution scans simply out there, so maintain an eye fixed out for that.
In reality, a decade earlier than Half-Life Alyx Valve was engaged on a VR spin-off that might have centered on Alyx and her robotic companion Canine. DYKG additionally managed to get some extra new never-before-seen idea artwork for this title too, and the group talks to Valve collector David McGreavy, who has the unique artwork getting uploaded quickly.
“There was an unbiased Alyx and Canine VR expertise that was being toyed with,” McGreavy tells DYKG. “My understanding was that it was going to be a VR expertise with Alyx and Canine, going into the world and exploring. So sort of like Half-Life Alyx, however much less Metropolis 17, much less city environments, and extra out into the [world].
Based on McGreavy, this Alyx and Canine recreation would have let Valve and the participant discover the broader Half-Life world, however it by no means really received out of the idea section. DYKG donated the prices of getting these high-quality idea artwork scans to McGreavy, who additionally has the brand new scans of Episode 3 which might be incoming as nicely.
DYKG additionally has some new idea artwork for Stars of Blood, a recreation set within the Half-Life universe that might have included area pirates. Little or no outdoors of the decade-old idea artwork is thought about Stars of Blood, so DYKG asks McGreavy what he’s heard.
It was imagined to be area pirate themed,” McGreavy explains. “Exploring a number of worlds, probably. My understanding was it was nonetheless going to be a first-person shooter, however extra of an exploratory factor.
“Type of like a Half-Life simply within the sense that it’s not nearly operating and gunning, it was the exploration and discovering the stuff, and never simply discovering a key or a button. So extra like Half-Life 2 however in that wider world.
“There was a powerful second for a very long time of like ‘how will we join the whole lot to make a shared universe?’” McGreavy continues. “I do know that Marc Laidlaw and a few the opposite writers had been like ‘That’s sort of a foul thought.’”
McGreavy is below the impression that Stars of Blood most likely by no means even grew to become a recreation design doc. It was presumably as an alternative solely ever a “cool thought” that Valve explored earlier than scrapping it.
For those who weren’t conscious of what Half-Life 3 virtually might have been, DYKG breaks down Geoff Keighley’s earlier interview with Valve’s David Speyer, who was engaged on a possible Half-Life 3 in 2013 that might have centered on procedurally generated content material. Speyer was engaged on a prototype at Valve that might sew procedurally generated areas between hand-crafted story segments. Valve’s new engine on the time, Supply 2, was unfinished although, and this buried the concept.
The DYKG video has much more data and a few photographs of the upcoming new idea artwork, so we suggest checking it out.
If you wish to learn much more of our Half-Life protection, we just lately shared a Half-Life remake that turns the FPS right into a twin-stick roguelike, and it appears to be like wonderful. Even fan-made remake Black Mesa has overtaken Valve’s unique launch on Steam with extra critiques, particularly overwhelmingly constructive ones, from gamers.
Fancy leaping again into Half-Life or fellow previous video games? Then we’ve received you lined. We even have a breakdown of the most effective single-player video games on PC, with the Half-Life sequence chief amongst them.